Anti-friction bearing



(No Model.)

RARNOLD ANTI-FRIGTION BEARING.

No. 444,311. Patented Jan. 6, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PHINEAS ARNOLD, OF

PATENT OFFICE.

CANAL DOVER, OHIO.

ANTI-FRIC'TION BEARING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 444,311, dated January 6, 1891.

Application filed March 4, 1890.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PHINEAS ARNOLD, of Canal Dover, in the county of Tuscarawas and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Anti-Friction Bearings, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in anti-friction bearings especially designed for use with the axles or shafts of wheeled vehicles, and has for its object to provide a means whereby a wheel may be made to revolve upon a shaftor axle with the least possible friction.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in lthe claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart-of this specication, in which similar iigures f reference indicate corresponding partsin both views.

Figure l is a longitudinal section through a journal-box having my invention applied, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section on line 2 2 of Fig. l.

Referring to the drawings, represents an axle-spindle, 2O a j ournal-boX, and 22 the nut on the end of the spindle. \Vithin the box are arranged the two sets of frictionrollers l5, having spherical ends, one sot being separated from the other by a central steel washer 2l. At each end of the box and within the same washers 18 are also employed, one steel washer contacting with the Serial No. 342,573. (No model.)

inner end surface of the box and the other washer with a cap 22, screwed upon the spindie of the axle, which cap covers the outer end of the box, which is usually open. The washers serve as bearings for the ends of the friction-rollers, and being made of steel and the ends of the rollers spherical there will be but little friction between them. This bearing is especially adapted for use with all kinds of wheeled vehicles, being particularly desirable for the bearings of drier-cars for brick, lumber, the.; also for mining-cars and other vehicles of similarnature.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let-ters Patent- In an anti-friction bearing, the combination, with the axle-spindle, the journal-box 20, having` open outer end, and the cap 22, screwed on the end of the axle-spindle and covering the outer end of the journal-box, of the washers 18, one resting against the inner surface of the box and the other against the inner surface of the cap, the central washer 2l, the said washers fitting loosely within the journal-box, and the two sets of independent friction-rollers 15, having spherical ends and arranged between the central and end washers, substantially as heroin shown and described.

MIINEAS ARNOLD.

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